{"product_id":"1119380","title":"Piotr Alexewicz - Liszt: Sonata In B Minor [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing Liszt's Sonata in B Minor, Beethoven's Rondo a Capriccio in G Major, Chopin's Scherzo in B Minor and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, young pianist Piotr Alexewicz performs this demanding programme on a Steinway D, 595375.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eHe says of these works:\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e'Liszt'019s Sonata in B minor is an electrifying work, one of the most magnificent monuments of Romantic piano music, and at the same time rather an un-Lisztian example of a creative, albeit highly polemic, reference to tradition.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eThis B minor Sonata, completed at the beginning of 1853 and dedicated to Schumann, is quite an isolated, yet exceptionally\\r\u003cbr\u003eweighty, attempt to break the impasse in the Romantic perception of the genre. This remarkable work remains the subject of all manner of programmatic interpretations.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eDuring the earliest period in Beethoven's oeuvre, in Bonn and the first years in Vienna, he wrote primarily for the piano or\\u2014as we often forget today\\u2014the harpsichord.  In the case of the Rondo a capriccio, Op. 129, despite the misleadingly high\\r\u003cbr\u003eopus number (given by the publisher), this is an early work, with sketches rediscovered in our times enabling us to date it to the period around 1795\\u201397.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eIn 1835, when Schlesinger published Chopin\\u2019s First Scherzo in B minor in Paris, the musical world could not contain itself with amazement. In an oft-cited review, Robert Schumann, a great admirer of the Polish composer, asked: \\u2018How should gravity array itself when jest is already darkly robed?\\u2019\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eThe generic name is Italian for \\u2018jest\\u2019, and that is precisely the sort of light character displayed by scherzos familiar to the public at that time.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eThe Romantic French writer Aloysius Bertrand wrote a number of \\u2018prose poems\\u2019  which came to inspire a composition by Maurice Ravel,who in 1908 selected three episodes as the programmatic framework for a piano suite.  with time, it became renowned as one of the foremost achievements in\\r\u003cbr\u003etwentieth-century piano music. In this cycle, Ravel finally liberates himself from the influence of Debussy and shows his own, highly individual idiom in all its glory.\u003cp\u003eFRANZ LISZT: Sonata In B Minor S. 178\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Rondo A Capriccio In G Major OP. 128\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFRYDERYCK CHOPIN: Scherzo In B Minor Op. 31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAURICE RAVEL: Gaspard De La Nuit (1908)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55133589111169,"sku":"1119380","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41DoXY75F9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1767069203","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1119380","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}